The former NBC staffer accused Lauer of raping her in 2014 while they worked the OlympicsCredit: Reuters

"DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender," she wrote.

The acronym is used to describe the common behavior of people accused of sexual misconduct or wrongdoing.

It was first coined in 1997 by University of Oregon researcher Jennifer Joy Freyd in the peer-reviewed journal Feminism and Psychology.

"The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim - or the whistle-blower - into an alleged offender," Freyd wrote.

Mediaite published the disgraced anchor's 4,800-word column, in which Lauer accused his former NBC colleague of being biased against the network and called Farrow's writing "deeply flawed" material.

He also said the writer had not confirmed specific accusations against him that were detailed in Catch and Kill.

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Farrow also responded to Lauer's piece on Twitter, saying 'Matt Lauer is just wrong'Credit: AP:Associated Press

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Nevils accused Lauer of raping her at the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Farrow's bookCredit: Twitter

"From start to finish Ronan is acting as Brooke's advocate, not as a journalist investigating her claims," Lauer wrote.

"I believe Ronan knew his work on Catch and Kill would receive little in the way of scrutiny, from the very beginning.

"It's the only way to explain why he was so willing to abandon common sense and true fact checking in favor of salacious, and deeply flawed, material."

Lauer said he re-reported the allegations against him and claims there are holes in Farrow's story, a claim asserted by New York Times journalist Ben Smith in a piece published on Monday titled 'Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?'.